I think everything on your wish list is doable without much effort. The reason the ijs buttons are at the bottom is that they are then easily accessed with the tab key. That is:
edit changes, tab key, enter (triggers run button), etc. At the top the same trick works with shift+tab, but would up the pressure for key shortcuts. A big step forward would be to adopt the use of html accesskey (ctrl+key to do something). The problem is that this area is full of cross platrom/browser incompatibilities. I think getting something useful is possible, but a bit like walking a mine field. I've moved from hating javascript to finding it to be quite nice for client side programming. But the serious problems of browser incompatibilities continue (although nothing like even 3 years ago. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:53 AM, David Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote: > I tried a variety of my 6.02 scripts and had success with some of them. > Many > wouldn't run due to the lack of wd. I created a cd replacement for > wd'clippaste > 2' and I was able to get my exiftool utility working. > > I missed the keyboard shortcuts for Open, Save, Run, Run Line, the debug > verbs, > ijx/ijs window swap, the contextual find options, 'recent' script memory. > > My preference would be to have the ijs buttons and file name at the top of > the > window, rather than the bottom. > > I found the loss of cursor position after hitting Save in the ijs window > very > unproductive. > > I would like a more complete browser window for opening scripts, at least > including time and date. > > I found I had to hit enter to force a manual refresh of the jijx window > after > hitting run on a concurrent ijs window. > > Even with these issues, I found it reasonably usable. > > I copied in the 6.02 addons into the 701 directory and had success with an > sqlite script. > > -- > David Mitchell > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
